> is anyone else absolutely astounded that someone as intelligent as The President would say something like "If even one child’s life can be saved, then we nee

> is anyone else absolutely astounded that someone as intelligent as The President would say something like "If even one child’s life can be saved, then we need to act."? Someone as intelligent as the president would never say this on Hacker News, no. Someone was intelligent as a president looking to get anywhere in politics, would. Sad, but there's one solution: actively support the rights of people you otherwise disagree with. The right-wing backlash in ~2001-2004 was immense and "justified" with statements "well, you guys didn't speak up after Ruby Ridge[1], so why should we speak up for you?" In ~12/14-12/16, my Twitter stream was full of variation of "you right-wing nuts did not support 4th amendment rights after 9/11, why should we support 2nd amendment today?" Reminder: "eye for an eye" leads "we're all blind!" more often than "people we don't like have one eye punched out too!". [1] "I don't think it's fair to entrap someone in order to make them spy on a neo-Nazi organization, then lay siege and kill their wife if they don't" does not equate to "I support their black helicopter conspiracy theory views".